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[Source: Wikipedia] A normal high school boy Ryūji Kisaragi's peaceful life is turned into
an adventure by the return of his second cousin, Eriko, a sexy young woman with a penchant for adventure and trouble. Ryūji and Eriko
seize a relic box from a black market broker named FANG. In the box,
they find a red dragon girl whom Ryūji names Rose because of her rose
like pattern on her left hand. In order to protect Rose from the black
organization, Ryūji decides to fight using his power as a relic handler.Episode 11 "Dragon Crisis": Rose's change in attitude continues even after a night's sleep. This in
turn, much to Eriko's dismay, makes the couple awkward around each
other. At school Rose tries to consult Misaki and Ryuji vaguely tries
the same with Masato but to no avail. Rose's condition gets worse during
PE, to the point where she collapses. She is transferred to the
Society's Dragon Lab. Meanwhile Eriko and Bianca manage to capture
Sapphie who had rerturned to regain her shoes that she had left behind.
Questioning her reveals that Rose's condition is not normal and Sapphie
herself does not understand what's going on. Onyx contacts Ryuji and
reveals to him that the Dragon's Rite of Adult does not take effect with
humans but only with dragon partners and that Rose's current condition
is because Ryuji is not human but a Lost Precious with power over
dragons called the "Dragon Crisis". If Ryuji continues to stay near Rose
her condition will only worsen. Left with no choice, Ryuji hands Rose
over to Onyx. More than two weeks later, Ryuji goes to and acts normal
in school but Misaki realizes that Ryuji is hiding his own feelings.
Later that night Maruga return to talk with Ryuji. Episode 12 "Engage": Rose wakes up with no memories about her life with Ryuji and her
friends. Not willing to take any chances, Onyx decides to leave Japan
with her as soon as possible. Meanwhile, thanks to Maruga's counseling,
Ryuji finally comes to terms with his feelings for Rose and together
with all his friends, he sets to Haneda Airport to rescue her after being tipped off by Sapphie.

[Source: Wikipedia] A group of six childhood friends drift apart after one of them, Meiko
"Menma" Honma, dies in an accident. Several years after the incident,
the leader of the group, Jinta Yadomi, has withdrawn from society and
lives as a recluse. One summer day, the ghost of an older looking Menma
appears before him and asks to have a wish granted, reasoning that she
cannot pass on into the afterlife until it is fulfilled. Since Menma
does not remember what her wish is, Jinta gathers his estranged friends
together once again, believing that they are the key to resolving this
problem. However, hidden feelings, internal conflicts, and lingering
feelings of bitterness from Menma's parents result in complications for
the group as they struggle to help not only Menma move on, but more
importantly, themselves as well. Episode 05 "Tunnel": Atsumu blames himself for Menma's death, and Menma has Jinta tell him
things that only she and Atsumu know of. Later, Chiriko explains how she
caught onto his obsession with Menma. Atsumu recalls ten years ago,
when he confessed to Menma shortly after Jinta ran off, only to be
rejected. Meanwhile, Jinta wonders why he hasn't been so focused on
fulfilling Menma's wish lately. The next day, Naruko goes to a karaoke
bar with her friends, when a boy forces her to a love hotel. She is
saved by the timely arrival of Atsumu. On the train ride home, Atsumu
asks Naruko about her feelings for Jinta. She is conflicted whether or
not she 'likes' him. Meanwhile, Tetsudō tells Jinta his theory that
Menma is around because she couldn't ascend to Heaven, but this just
makes her upset. Episode 06 "Forget It, Don't Forget": Trying to figure out Menma's wish, Jinta decides to make his
long-delayed return to school. However, his return is overshadowed over
rumours about Naruko having been spotted at a love hotel. As Naruko
becomes noticeably upset by all the nasty gossip surrounding her, Jinta
stands up for her, and both leave class right away. With Naruko troubled
about her parents hearing about the news, she decides to stay at the
secret base. Hoping if there are any clues to what Menma's wish might
be, Jinta, Naruko and Tetsudō visit Menma's house to pay their respects,
where they meet her mother, who gives them Menma's diary, which they
agree to read the next day. When Jinta mentions the visit to Menma, she
becomes upset as she wanted her mother to forget about her so that she
wouldn't be sad. Jinta in turn yells at her for never thinking of
herself and runs off.

1:40 - 2:30 Mirai Nikki (Future Diary) 5-6

[Source: Wikipedia] Yukiteru "Yuki" Amano is a loner who never really interacts with
people and prefers writing a diary on his cell phone with his only
companion being an imaginary friend named Deus Ex Machina, the God of
Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that Deus is real when he
makes Yuki participate in a battle royal
with eleven other people. Within this "Diary Game", the contestants are
given special diaries that can predict the future, with each diary
having unique features that gives them both advantages and
disadvantages. Within the next 90 days, the contestants must try to kill
each other and survive until there is only one person standing, the
winner becoming the new God of Time and Space. In order to survive, Yuki
tries to find allies, with one of them being another diary user named
Yuno Gasai, a girl who is madly in love with him. As the game continues,
Yuki soon learns that not everyone can be trusted, not even Yuno, whose
obsession to keep both of them alive no matter the cost terrifies him.
Yet despite her faults, Yuki continues to trust Yuno since he manages to
survive the game thanks to her. Originally, Yuki had no desire to win the game and stoop as low as
the other contestants who either cheat, lie, manipulate or kill in order
to win. However, that all changes when late in the game, Yuki's parents
are killed. Yuki suffers a breakdown over his parents death until Yuno
seduces and convinces him that if he becomes the new God of Time and
Space, he can bring his parents back to life. Now having a reason to
win, Yuki becomes a ruthless, backstabbing, and manipulative terrorist
who causes the deaths of thousands of civilians and destruction
throughout the city in order to kill the other contestants. Yuki's
actions shock his friends, in particular Aru Akise, who had suspicions
about Yuno and her motives. By the time Yuno and Yuki becomes the last
contestants, Aru and the rest of Yuki's friends chastis him on how he
has become just as bad as the other contestants. Aru tries to warn Yuki
that Yuno is manipulating him and that she has an ulterior motive.
Refusing to accept the truth and wishing to bring his parents back, Yuki
kills them until Aru manages to stop him and gives Yuki a clue over
Yuno's true identity before he is killed by Yuno herself. Eventually, Yuki learns that the Yuno he known is actually an
"impostor" as this "Yuno" is actually from a parallel universe who won
the Diary Game. In that universe, Yuno and Yuki were the last
contestants and Yuki committed suicide so that Yuno will be the new God
and resurrect him. But Yuno became distraught and more insane when she
learns that while she can resurrect the dead, she cannot bring back
their souls. With the help of Muru Muru, Deus' assistant and now Yuno's
after she won the Diary game, both of them travel back in time to Yuki's
universe and manipulated it where she killed the Yuno of Yuki's
universe and took her place so she could play the game again and find a
way to bring back "her" Yuki. As Yuno is about to kill him, Yuki is
saved by Minene Uryu, one of his allies and another Diary user who he
believed died in the game but was saved by Deus, who had suspicions that
the Muru Muru in his universe is not the one he knows but the one from
the parallel universe working with Yuno, and gave Minene some of his
powers before his death. Their plans foiled, Yuno and Muru Muru travel
to another universe to start over again but are followed by Yuki and
Minene who are trying to stop them. Finally, Yuno and Muru Muru are
stopped when the former learns in this new universe, all the terrible
things that happen to everyone in the previous universes never happen
including one where her parents were never abusive and lead to her
insanity. With Yuno's Muru Muru stopped by Yuki's universe's Muru Muru
and the help of the new universe's Diary users, Yuki convinces Yuno to
come to her senses and surrender as he loves her. Realizing her
mistakes, Yuno instead kills herself, believing this is the best for him
and making Yuki the new God of his universe. In the end, despite becoming the new God of Time and Space, Yuki
refuses to rule his universe as he has lost everything that he ever
loved and cared; his friends, parents and Yuno. But in an unexpected Deus ex machina,
the Yuno of the new universe arrives and invites Yuki to her universe
as Yuki's Muru Muru had given Yuno and the others of the new universe
their other universes memories which convinced that universe's Deus not
to hold the Diary game and instead make Yuki and Yuno his new heirs. The
series ends with Yuki reuniting with Yuno, his friends, parents and the
Diary users in a new, happier universe.

Episode 05 "Voice Memo": Yomotsu appears before the fleeing Yuki, Yuno and Tsubaki with four
hypnotised cult members dressed like him. Yomotsu explains that his
Righteous Diary led him to infiltrate the Sacred Eye cult and that he
intends to blow himself and Tsubaki up. Having learned from Keigo that
Yomotsu is blind, Yuno manages to tell him apart from the others and
kill him. Tsubaki then captures Yuki and Yuno, revealing her plan was to
kill them, Keigo and Yomotsu all along. Due to her traumatic past as a
ritual rape victim, Tsubaki wishes to attain Deus' power in order to
remake the world. Yuno manages to kill her captors, cut off Tsubaki's
hand and hand Yuki her diary before collapsing from exhaustion. Using
both diaries, Yuki manages to avoid detection, until Tsubaki tries to
lure him out by announcing that her followers will rape and kill Yuno.
Realising Yuno's devotion to him, Yuki gathers his courage and manages
to reach Yuno on time, but Tsubaki gloats that as long as he's in sight
of her followers, his actions will be predicted in her diary. Yuki
throws a small ball he found earlier up in the air, causing all of
Tsubaki's followers to look at it and rendering her diary useless. Yuki
then throws a dart at Tsubaki's diary, and since she is missing a hand,
she is unable to deflect the shot. With her diary pierced, Tsubaki
vanishes and Yuki and Yuno escape. Meanwhile, Uryu, who was released by
Yomotsu, gets captured by Keigo, but he eventually lets her go in return
for her contact information.Episode 06 "Vibrate Mode": Knowing from her diary that Yuki's mother is coming home from abroad,
Yuno breaks into Yuki's house with the intention of introducing herself
to Yuki's mother. Despite Yuki's efforts, his mother and Yuno meet and
take a liking to each other. That night, Yuno reveals to Yuki that her
diary predicts they will "come together" on a certain date and tells him
she will do anything to make sure that future comes to pass. The next
day, Yuki's mother brings home Reisuke Houjou, a young boy whose parents
were killed at the Sacred Eye incident. Despite his young age and
precocious demeanor, Reisuke is a Future Diary owner, plotting Yuno's
death.

2:30 - 3:20 Last Exile: Fam the Silver Wing 3-4

[Source: Wikipedia] Taking place two years after the events of Last Exile, Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing
is set on Earth, the original home world of the colonists of Prester.
The new story focuses on Fam Fan Fan and Giselle Collette, two vespa
pilots who work as Sky Pirates where they capture and sell battleships
for a living. Fam and Giselle get into an adventure when they and the
Sky Pirates rescue the Princesses of the Turan Kingdom, Liliana il
Grazioso Merlo Turan and her younger sister, Millia Il Velch Cutrettola
Turan, from the clutches of mighty Ades Federation. Led by Empress Sārā
Augusta and Premier Luscinia Hāfez, the Ades Federation is on an all out
war against the nations who are descendants of immigrants who came back
to Earth by Exile ships. As Ades was the only nation to stay on Earth
when the planet was in state of chaos and ruined, Luscinia believes the
immigrants of Exile have no right to return to Earth since their
ancestors abandoned Earth when it was in chaos only to return when Earth
was viable to live on again and force the original inhabitants of Earth
off their lands to form their own nations. To return these lands to
their original inhabitants, Luscinia leads the Ades Federation to
conquer the immigrant nations and destroy their armies with Turan being
one of them. After Luscinia kidnaps Liliana, who has the ability to control an
Exile, Luscinia summons an Exile to destroy the capital of Turan,
killing its soldiers and the King of Turan, leading to Turan
surrendering to Ades. With everything she cared for lost, Millia is
given refuge by the Sky Pirates where Fam promises to help Millia regain
her kingdom.Episode 03 "Light Square": The Ades battle fleets defeat the battle fleets of Notos and Luscinia
reports the surrender of Turan to the Ades Federation child Empress,
Sara Augusta. Sara wishes to the conquer and regain the lands for it's
original inhabitants who's ancestors were driven out and taken by
immigrants of Exiles like Turan, telling Luscinia and his Generals to
continue their work including finding all of the keys to the Exiles. At
the Sky Pirates fortress Kortoffel, Millia blames Fam for not rescuing
Liliana and is upset in seeing Lasas sold and turn into scrap metal.
When Millia causes a commotion trying to ride Fam's Vespa to regain her
sister's chalice that was bought a Sky Pirate, Fam, feeling sorry for
her, helps Millia get the chalice back. Meanwhile, Millia's butler Teddy
is invited into Giselle's family home where she explains the Sky
Pirates are refugees who were forced off their lands by Ades because
they were descendents of Exile immigrants. After finally getting back
the chalice and returning home, Fam tells Millia her past revealing she
was an orphan adopted by Atamora after surviving a vanship crash whens
she was a baby and her dream to see the return and win the Grand Race of
vanships when the world was still at peace. Arriving at Kortoffel, the
residents perform “Okuribi”, a candlelight ritual to honor those who
died in battle and return their souls to the skies. Watching this,
Millia apologizes to Fam and vows to change herself. After Millia gets a
haircut by Giselle, Dio informs everyone that the mysterious battleship
Silvius has been spotted which Fam plans to steal. Episode 04 "Dubious Move": Fam plans to steal the infamous ghost battleship, the Silvius for Millia
to regain her kingdom. After discussing what type of ship the Silvius
is with Dio and Giselle, they conclude the ship is a hit and run
aircraft carrier. On the day of the operation, Fam, Giselle and several
Vespa pilots ride off to the Silvius with Millia and Teddy tagging along
on Dio's vanship. After tricking the Silvius to head into a valley, Fam
gives a message to the crew of the Silvius to surrender. But the
Silvius, commanded by Tatiana and her executive officer Alister, ignores
Fam's message and moved on. Fam and the Sky Pirates try to stop the
ship using various tricks but none of them work on the Silvius which at
one point Tatiana herself chases off Fam and Giselle with her red
vanship while her vanship pilots capture Fam's crew. With the Silvius
escaping to the Grand Lake, Fam and Giselle take a desperate gamble by
sneaking into the Silvius but realize too late to learn that the room
they just enter was a waterlock, revealing the Silvius is also a
submersible ship. Fam and Giselle are brought to the bridge to meet
Tatiana and Alister where Tatiana ridicules Fam for trying to steal the
Silvius. Nevertheless, Tatiana offers to free Fam and Giselle if she
helps the Silvius steal 15 Ades battleships intact. Fam accepts her
offer after Tatiana mocks Fam that she can't do it, just as Dio, Millia
and Teddy arrive at the bridge.

3:20 - 3:45 Fate/Zero 2

[Source: Wikipedia] Fate/zero takes place 10 years prior to the events of Fate/stay night, detailing the events of the 4th Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City.[1]
The War of the Holy Grail is a contest in which seven magi summon seven
Heroic Spirits to compete to obtain the power of the "Holy Grail,"
which grants a miracle. After three inconclusive wars for the elusive
Holy Grail, the Fourth War commences. Founded by the Einzbern, Matō, and Tōsaka families centuries ago, the
Einzbern family is determined to achieve success after three successive
failures, no matter the cost. As a result, they have elected to bring
the hated magus killer, Kiritsugu Emiya, into their ranks, despite his
methods and reputation as a skilled mercenary and a hitman
who employs whatever he can use to accomplish his goals. Though
Kiritsugu had once wanted to become a hero who could save everyone, he
has long since abandoned this ideal upon realizing that saving one
person comes at the cost of another's life. For the sake of humanity, he
will ruthlessly destroy anything and anyone who threatens the peace of
others. However, Kiritsugu finds himself deeply torn between the love he has
found for his new family - his wife Irisviel and their daughter Illya -
and what he must do to obtain the Holy Grail. Meanwhile, Kiritsugu's
greatest opponent appears in the form of Kirei Kotomine, a priest who
cannot find any sense of fulfillment in his life and sets his sights on
Kiritsugu as the possible answer to the emptiness he feels.Episode 02 "False Start": Waver has a hard time commanding his servant Rider, who is actually Alexander the Great, as Rider is more interested how the world has changed since his time and wants to return to Macedonia and conquer the world once he wins the War. Rider assures Waver that he is reliable by summoning Gordius Wheel,
a magical ox-drawn chariot. In Germany, Kiritsugu is playing with his
daughter Ilya while Iri and Saber are watching them. Saber is surprised
to see this side of Kiritsugu since she assumes he was cold hearted and
was upset upon learning she was a woman but Iri tells him what actually
upset Kiritsugu was that Saber was forced to become the King of Britain
at a young age and accepted her fate. Still, Saber admires Kiritsugu and
Iri's wishes to save the world as she also wishes to save Britain when
she failed to do at her time. In Fuyuki City, serial killer Ryūnosuke
Uryū has murdered a family except a young boy to summon a demon,
becoming a Master and summoning the servant Caster. Impressed, Uryū
gives Caster the young boy as a sacrifice but Caster let's the boy go.
However it is revealed to be a ruse as just when the boy thinks he can
escape, Caster viciously kills him by a horrific creature, revealing
Caster enjoys giving his victims a moment of hope before horrifically
killing them. Uryū is overjoyed to meet someone as sadistic as him and
vows to follow Caster anywhere which Caster reveals he use to be called Bluebeard.
Upon learning the Seventh and final Master has been chosen, Kirei
orders Assassin to kill Tokiomi at his mansion, only for Assassin to end
up being killed by Tokiomi's servant, Archer, while attempting to break
inside.

3:45 - 4:45 Club Meeting and Announcements

Wishing Everyone a Wonderful New Year!

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4:45 - 5:35 Gosick 18-19

[Source: Wikipedia]
Gosick takes place in 1924 in a small, French-speaking fictional
European country of Sauville. The story centers on Kazuya Kujo, the
third son of a Japanese Imperial soldier, who is a transfer student to
St. Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all
the rage. There he meets Victorique, a mysterious yet beautiful and
brilliant girl who never comes to class and spends her days reading the
entire content of the library or solving mysteries that even detectives
can't solve. The series mostly focuses on Kazuya and Victorique getting
involved in different mystery cases and their struggle to solve them, at
the same time forming important bonds with different people. Episode 18 "The Jet-Black Train Carries Several Lies": Having escaped from the flood, Victorique, Kujo and the rest of the
passengers of the Masquerade Express find themselves involved into a
bloody contest for an elusive item that can shake the balance of power
between the Academy and the Ministry of Science. Episode 19 "The Rose Colored Life is Buried Under Fresh Snow": Kujo leaves to the capital to find a present to Victorique's birthday
which coincidentally is on Christmas day. Meanwhile, Victorique receives
a message from her mother and starts looking for Kujo without success
until she is summoned by her father and taken by Grevil to the capital
to solve the greatest mystery of the country, which involves its
previous queen, Coco Rose, whose life is being reenacted in a play at
the Phantom Theater.

5:35 - 6:00 Kamisama no Memo-chou 6

[Source: Wikipedia] Narumi Fujishima is an ordinary high school boy who remains
isolated from his fellow classmates. One afternoon fellow classmate
Ayaka Shinozaki invites Narumi to join the gardening club and introduces
him to a reclusive detective named Alice. Alice hires Narumi as an
assistant and puts him to work solving the strange mysteries of Angel
fix, an illegal drug. Little does he know it could put him and Ayaka in
serious trouble. Alice is a mysterious girl who lives on the third floor over Hanamaru ramen shop.
Her age is unknown, but looks like a 12 or 13 years-old girl. She is
short, pale white and has long black hair. She calls herself Alice (a
mixed reading of the kanji for Yūko) and a "NEET Detective". She is a hikikomori and a cracking genius. Her diet is based practically only on Dr Pepper and she suffers a severe insomnia.
She always wears bear patterned pajamas and she is always surrounded by
a pile of teddy bears. She is the brain of the NEET Detective Team and
gathers information to solve the cases with her laptop without stepping
out of her bedroom.Episode 6 "It Seems Like I'll Lose": During summer vacations Yondaime is organizing an event and Narumi helps
with the promotion of the band. But the other founder of Hirasaka-gumi,
the man who gave it its name, has returned to Tokyo. It seems something
had happened between Hirasaka and Yondaime. Hirasaka acts friendly
towards Narumi but then mobilizes a group to impersonate Hirasaka-gumi
and blacken its name, endangering the realization of the event.

FEATURE PRESENTATION:

6:00 - 8:00 Hoshi o Ou Kodomo

[Source: Wikipedia] Asuna Watase is a young girl who has been forced to grow-up quickly due
to the death of her father and her mother, a nurse works long shifts at
the hospital. Asuna spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious
music emanating from the cat's whisker receiver her father gave to her
as a memento. One day while walking to her clubhouse across a bridge she
is attacked by a fearsome creature and saved by a mysterious boy who
calls himself Shun. Shun tells Asuna not to come back but comes back the
next day to find Shun expecting her. Asuna heals Shun's wound from
fighting the creature and later they both listin to Asuna's radio. Shun
tells Asuna he is from a another country called Agartha who come to this
place to find something. He then gives Asuna a blessing in the form a
kiss and kisses her on the forehead. Asuna shocked at this hurridly
leaves and tells Shun she'll be back tomorrow. Shun now alone looks at
the stars and tries to reach them but falls from the ledge to his death.
The next morining Asuna hears from her mother that a boy was found dead
in the river, but refuses to beleve it's Shun. In school Mr. Morisaki, a
substitute teacher is giving lecture on a book which grabs Asuna
attention when he mentions Agartha, the land of the dead. After school
she visits Morisaki's house and asks him about Agartha. Morisaki
explains that long ago when human-kind was young they needed the
guidance of Quetzal Coatls, the keepers of the dead until human matured
and no longer needed them, so they went underground along a few human
who joined them. Morisaki tells Asuna to go strait-home but insted goes
to her hideout to find another mysterious boy who looks like Shun
standing on the ledge. Just then a group of armed men which the boy
calls the Arch Angels appeare and attack the both of them. The Arch
Angels' commander captures Asuna and uses a crystal called the clovis to
open a gateway. The commander and Asuna enter the gateway followed by
the boy. Once inside the commander reveals himself to be Morisaki and
the boy also reveals himself to be Shin, Shun's younger brother and asks
Morisaki to state his business. Morisaki tells him that all he wants is
to bring back his late wife from the dead. Shin put's away his knife
and leaves Asuna and Morisaki. Morisaki explains to Asuna that the Arch
Angels are a group that has bin searching for Agartha, the land of the
dead for it's knowledge and wealth but all he wants is to reserect his
wife. He tells Asuna that she can go back but she decides to accompany
him. They both enter the realm of via an underwater entrance. Once
inside they go on a journey to the Gate of Life and Death which can
bring back the souls of people back from the dead. Along the way Asuna
is kidnapped by a race of monsters called the Itzous, in their hideout
she meets a young girl named Mana and they both try to escape. In their
escape attempt they encounter Shin who helps them escape but is wounded
by an Itzou. Morisaki finds Asuna and Mana down the river as well as
Shin. Shin haven woke-up tries to kill Morisaki by order of his village
as well as to retrieve a clovis crystal that belongs to Asuna. However
he is to weak to put-up a fight and Morisaki esally defeats him. Asuna
convinces Morisaki to take him with them and Mana leads them to her
village, Amaurot. Once their the villagers at first are very hostle
tword the "topdwellers" but the village elder convinces them to let them
in. The elder lets them stay at his home and during his stay Morisaki
and the elder get into an argument about his quest to the Gate of Life
and Death. Meanwhile Asuna checks up on Shin but Shin tells her to leave
him alone. The next moring Asuna and Morisaki depart from Amaurot, Shin
wakes up later and after seeing the villagers riding away to kill them
he decides to follow them in order to protect Asuna. Morisaki and Asuna
are climing walking twords highland when they are attacked by the
villagers but they are saved by Shin. Morisaki decides to take the
distraction to his advantage and carries Asuna up to the highlands. Once
their they come upon a cliff but Asuna being to scared to clime down
stays back while Morisaki climes down leaving her. Meanwhile Shin
fighting against the villagers is about to be killed when the villagers
sense that the clovis crystal has reached the Gate of Life and Death and
leave Shin to die, but Shin still strong is able to get away from the
area. Asuna, now alone is walking aimlessly and asking her self why she
came to Agartha and finally accepts that she came to Agartha because she
was feeling lonely. She is then attacked by the Itzous but saved by
Shin. Asuna and Shin return to the cliff after seeing a flying ark
decend their and encounter a Quetzal Coalt about to die. Before they die
the Quetzal Coalts sing a song and Asuna discovers where mysterious
music she listins to comes from. Shin and Asuna are taken to the bottom
of the cliff by the Quetzal Coalt but while they fall the Quetzal Coalt
dies. Now at the bottom of the cliff they both find the Gate of Life and
Death and enter it. Inside they find Morisaki who tells Asuna she
shouldn't have come and she is soon possessed by Lisa, Morisaki's late
wife. Shin angerlly tries to destroy the clovis crystal but Morisaki not
wanting to lose his wife again tries to kill him. However Shin is able
to destroy the the crystal but before she is taken away Lisa tells
Morisaki to find happiness without her. Asuna is now back to her normal
self but Morisaki is devastated and asks Shin to kill him but tells him
that he has to live. The film ends with Asuna, Shin and Morisaki heading
back to the surface.

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Made in Abyss is centered around an orphan girl named Riko who lives in the town of Orth on an island in the sea of Beoluska. The city surrounds a strange, giant hole going deep into the earth, which is commonly called the Abyss. The Abyss harbors artifacts and remnants of a civilization long gone, and is therefore the popular hunting spot for so-called Cave Raiders, who undertake arduous and dangerous descents into the mist-filled pit to recover whatever relics they can find. However, the deeper one goes into the Abyss, the more they are afflicted by a progressively fatal malady called the Curse of the Abyss once they ascend back; few who have descended into the lower regions have returned to tell of their experiences. Some legendary Cave Raiders earn the title of White Whistle, one of them being Riko's mother Lyza.

Riko's goal is to follow in her mother's footsteps and solve the mysteries of the Abyss. One day she explores the caves and discovers a robot named Reg who resembles a human boy that she and her friends befriend. Some time later, Riko is informed that some items sent by Lyza were recovered, including a message to her, telling her to meet in the bottom of the Abyss. Riko then bids farewell to her friends and departs to the Abyss with Reg in search for her mother, despite knowing of the risks and the fact that due to the Curse of the Abyss, she will never be able to return.

Characters Riko is a trouble-prone 12-year-old girl who wants to emulate her late mother, a legendary Cave Raider named Lyza the Annihilator who disappeared in the Abyss ten years ago. Riko is currently a Cave Raider-in-training at the Belchero Orphanage, and as a rookie bears the rank of Red Whistle. She has secretly taken possession of one of her finds, the Star Compass, which she hopes to use in her exploration of the Abyss. Her poor eyesight stems from the Curse of the Abyss, which she caught when her mother gave birth to her during a mission in the Abyss.

Reg is an amnesic robot in the shape of a human boy. Having no memory of his own name, he was given the name Reg after a dog Riko used to own. Surprisingly, he can consume organic food despite being classified as a machine. His mechanical arms extensible, and can also fire a deadly energy beam capable of melting even stone, which Riko dubs the "Incinerator".

Flashback Corner - Remember This?

THE DIRTY PAIR is a series of sci-fi comedy light novels written by Haruka Takachiho and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko that was later adapted into anime and manga versions. The franchise has bounced across multiple formats and production companies, resulting in (so far) eight novels and a few shorter stories, a television series, two OVA series, two OVA features, a feature film, a number of graphic novels, and two short Japanese radio series. The 1985 television series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for that year.

The stories take place in the years 2138-43, by which time humanity has spread across some few thousand star systems. A corporation called the World Welfare Works Association (WWWA or 3WA) helps member systems of the United Galactica (UG) federation deal with various planetary-scale problems, for profit, by sending agents called "trouble consultants". The series focuses on a team of trouble consultants in that section, named Kei and Yuri, who have a reputation for leaving a trail of destruction behind them, for which they are known publicly as the "Dirty Pair".

Kei and Yuri are the two members of Trouble Consultant team 234, code named "Lovely Angels". Almost every mission they are involved with ends up in disaster, but not failure (they'll catch the crook, but a city may be destroyed in the process), and thus they are more generally known as the "Dirty Pair", a nickname they hate. They are always cleared of any wrongdoing by the 3WA's Central Computer because the extreme collateral damage is never actually their fault (though their mere presence has been known to make things worse). In some but not all continuities, they have joint ESP powers, usually limited to precognition. This talent was the reason they were recruited in the first place.

Kei is a hot-headed tomboy with red hair and tanned skin who wears a silver-white uniform. She favors large weaponry and prefers to "shoot first, ask questions later". The more aggressive of the two, she is also the bustier of the pair and is attracted to manly, muscular men. Yuri is of Japanese ethnicity, and wears a golden-yellow uniform. She often uses non-gun weaponry such as energy whips or throwing cards. While the more feminine of the two, she is known to become very violent when crossed. She is the more bottom-heavy of the team and is also a coy flirt who prefers cultured, refined men. Her most recognized weapon is the Bloody Card, a technologically enhanced throwing card that can be used to take down several people at once.

Gaming Corner

NIER: AUTOMATA is an action role-playing game in which players take the role of combat androids from the YoRHa units across an open world environment. In addition to standard navigation on foot, using a special item allows the player to summon a wild animal to ride, and in some scenarios pilot a flying mech to fight enemies. As with the previous game, during navigation in some environments, the camera shifts from its standard third-person view to an overhead or side-scrolling perspective. Some areas also include platforming elements, requiring the player to navigate via jumping between platforms or over obstacles. The player can complete side quests for non-playable characters found throughout the world. Shops available in hub locations allow the player to purchase items, including consumables which recover health.

Combat is action-based, with the player fighting enemies in real-time in a variety of in-game environments. During battle, the player can use light attacks—which are fast but weak—and heavy attacks—slow and more powerful. The player can evade enemy attacks, and with successfully timed button presses, can gain temporary invulnerability and launch a counterattack which deals heavy damage. The player is also assisted by a Pod, a flying robot assistant which launches customizable ranged attacks varying from simple gunfire to heavy-hitting hammer attacks. Players can access four different weapon types in battle: short swords, long swords, bracers, and spears. While attacking, the player can alternate between both weapon types and attacks to create combination attacks. Attacks with different weapon types can also be charged and launched for increased damage. Weapon Stories, a recurring element in both Nier and the Drakengard series, where weapons found throughout the world have unique stories attached to them, are also featured.

As the players progress, they gain experience levels, increasing their health, defense, and attack power. Character progression is handled through chips, items installed onto the player characters that modify their attributes; these chips provide benefits ranging from altering the HUD, to granting status buffs. The number of chips that can be installed at once are limited by how many slots are available. Chips can either be purchased from shops, or picked up from defeated enemies. If the player dies, they will respawn at their previous save point. The player can then find their original body, and either retrieve items and experience left with it to gain a bonus, or attempt to repair it. Depending on the player's success, the body is either resurrected as a temporary ally, or as an enemy the player can defeat for an extra bonus. With online features enabled, the bodies of other players can also be retrieved or resurrected at the location in which they died.

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MIGHTY ORBOTS

In the future, Earth is threatened by various enemies, but none worse than the organization called Shadow, lead by the cybernetic menace known as Umbra. Against this, the Galactic Patrol strives to protect Earth, but the mild mannered young scientist, Robert Simmons, does more. In times of peril, he secretly fights as the leader of the Orbots, a team of unique artificially intelligent robots each equipped with their own unique capabilities that are invaluable in this war. Together, whether individually or united as parts of a giant combined robot, they represent Earth's most powerful defense.